The British Sunday Times has reported that Israel is already planning and training for a tactical nuclear attack on Iranian facilities. This particular news item was also carried on ynetnews, a Zionist news site. In any case, I find it particularly that neither headline displayed the simple truth behind the...
Yup. Rosa Mariam Elizalde interviews Gore Vidal – as usual, Vidal is quite sharp, and to the point. At some point he quotes Mark Twain as having said “the American flag should be replaced not with the stars and stripes, forget them, it should be the Jolly Roger, the skull...
We the undersigned viewers of MBC in the Middle East abhor the constant broadcast of American produced news on an Arab TV Channel, and find that it as not much more than thinly veiled propaganda for what can only be considered a Western view point of current events. We do...
You may or may not have come across a story about the six imams who were ‘removed’ from a Minneapolis to Phoenix flight earlier this week. If you haven’t – you can read more about it here. I can’t say I’m too worried about that. According to the article, the...
I reread an article by Simon Jenkins today, and as before, I was pleased to some into contact, albeit one-way, with what appears to be a very rational man. Which is to say – I find myself nodding a lot while reading what Simon writes. If you’re waiting for a...
I came across the following news item on Harpers.org - To protest the Iraq war, a man named Malachi Ritscher committed suicide in Chicago by setting himself on fire next to a 25-foot-tall sculpture called “Flame of the Millennium.” Along with a self-penned obituary, the 52-year-old Ritscher posted a farewell...
I first saw an Ali G. show years ago. I laughed. I didn’t laugh much, but I did laugh once, as I ‘got’ the joke, and then something spectacularly simple happened; I no longer found it funny. Sacha Baron Cohen was, and continues to be, a one trick pony; 1...
Now, just to settle this once and for all. Every once in a while, as has happened just recently (see comments on my previous post), I get told that it is the ‘impractical’ Arabs that are at the root of the problem. That, as a recent commentator has said, if...
My name is Omar Kamel, and I am Egyptian. I’m not a big fan of watching the news, but I couldn’t help notice all the coverage regarding your victory in the recent elections. In any case, I wanted to know where you stood on things, and despite reasonable positions on...
Most people seem to dismiss boycotts as ineffectual, a quick look at the history of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the Middle East seems to indicate that we have been led to sorely underestimate the purchasing power we wield when we act en masse. Take a look, you might want to...
